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FESTIVAL KICKS OFF WITH A DREAMY FLOATING SPECTACLE
“If Lewis Carroll had turned his absurdist vision to street arts, teaming up with Salvador Dalí and Hieronymus Bosch, he might have come up with Fous de Bassin, a strange, dreamy floating spectacle created by French company Ilotopie, who literally walk on water.” This fragment from Lyn Gardner’s review published on England’s prestigious newspaper The Guardian in 2009 illustrates how visually stunning Fous de Bassin (Water Fools) is. The show will be staged tonight at 8 PM in front of Puerto Madero Dock 2, with free admission, marking the official opening of the Festival. For the audiences coming to see the show, there will be stands on Rosario Vera Peñaloza and Azucena Villaflor streets; and the recommended entrance is on Avenida Belgrano or Estados Unidos street. The performance will run for 50 minutes and promises to be an unforgettable experience. Don’t miss it!
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21 Oct 2013 ... AND MANY MORE
The series of films was also highly attractive for festivalgoers, with screenings of films featuring key figures from the international theatrical scene, such as the show “Tambours sur la Digue”, by Ariane Mnouchkine, and the documentary “Brook par Brook” (a portrait of Peter Brook made by his son). There were also screenings of Argentine films: “Los posibles”, by Santiago Mitre and Juan Onofri Barbato, “Viola” and “Rosalinda”, by Matías Piñeiro; in addition to [...]
21 Oct 2013 A GREAT FESTIVAL CAME TO AN END
74 thousand people in total attended the shows, activities, meetings and screenings programmed by the ninth edition of the Festival, attractive for the artistic quality and risk of the national and international productions presented, the inclusion of new sections and venues to the ever-lively Buenos Aires cultural and theatrical circuit (a total of 27 venues across nearly the entire city). Outstanding figures of international theatre in the 21st century such as German director Thomas [...]
On the last day of a memorable Festival with a massive turnout – with almost all performances sold out – 36 top-notch national productions and 20 international ones (performed by companies from Germany, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Congo, France, Italy, Mexico, Poland, United Kingdom and Uruguay), and the presence of world-renowned figures of theatre, there is still a chance to see two European plays. One is the Polish “III Furie”, staged by Modjeska Theatre (at Sala Casacuberta of t [...]
20 Oct 2013 SUNDAY’S FILMS
Films, one of the Festival’s most prominent sections, comes to an end. The lineup of screenings for today includes three contemporary Argentine films directed by talented young filmmakers. “Los Posibles”, by Santiago Mitre and Juan Onofre Barbato, about the dance project carried out by a group of youths from one of the most deprived areas in the Buenos Aires suburbs, will be screened at 3.30 PM. Then, “Rosalinda”, by Matías Piñeiro, will show at 6 PM – a chronicle of [...]
The book release and award ceremony for the Germán Rozenmacher Award will be held today at 3 PM at the auditorium Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (Corrientes 2038). The jury composed of Andrea Garrote, Jorge Dubatti and Mariano Saba chose “Un día es un montón de cosas”, by Jimena Aguilar. The play was translated into English, French and Portuguese and is published by Los Libros del Rojas in a quadrilingual edition with a print run [...]